Facebook began testing a feature aimed at providing a destination for local news, in addition to content that can already be found on News Feed and on publishers' pages. Mobile users in six cities--Billings, Mont.; Binghamton, N.Y.; Little Rock, Ark.; New Orleans; Olympia, Wash.; and Peoria, Ill.--may start seeing alerts guiding them to the feature,... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
[ AdWeek | 2018-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When Fast Company first wrote about Mark Zuckerberg, in the spring of 2007, he was just 22 years old and his young company, Facebook, had just 19 million users. Our magazine cover line, “The Kid Who Turned Down $1 Billion,” seems almost quaint in hindsight, given Facebook’s $400 billion market... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook just executed what might best be described as a digital advertising coup against rival Google and its DoubleClick empire.The social media power said Wednesday that it's bringing advertiser demand from its Audience Network to mobile web publishers that use header bidding.Mobile... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“When you ask five questions, Facebook has the answer to none of them,” said one publishing exec. “The initiative appears to be set up by amateurs." The post German publishers are skipping Facebook’s fake-news initiative appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook’s 2017 plans include buying original shows and rolling out a mid-roll ad product for media partners. But some news publishers feel like these initiatives won’t help them. The post Facebook’s latest video shift irks news publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News site Attn, which gets 400 million views per month on Facebook, is investing in Facebook Live -- and outsourcing some of that content to external parties. To cover two protests in January, Attn recruited protesters on-site to provide a live feed for its Facebook page. Attn also live streamed... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week Facebook revealed it has partnered with eight French media companies to fact-check and filter news articles that have been flagged by its users. The news follows a similar effort started by news coalition led by First Draft News. French publishers have welcomed the efforts but admit... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News organizations operating in France will open up a new fact-checking service, CrossCheck, at the end of this month. Their initial focus will be on covering the forthcoming French elections, but with a number of international organizations participating, the project's reach could... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mobile apps’ share of video consumption went down from eight to five percent by the end of 2016, continuing a downward trend, according to video tech firm JW Player. Not surprisingly, then, most digital publishers can’t justify spending $500,000 or more on mobile app development and maintenance,... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frontline Club panel discuss the problem of ‘alternative facts’ and concede that social media is not the only organisation publishing falsehoodsPrivate Eye’s latest cover shows a picture of Donald Trump, hand on bible, at his inauguration with a speech bubble saying: “I swear to tell the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newspapers and other media outlets are struggling to make money from their partnerships with tech giants like Facebook and Snapchat, raising concerns over their business models in a news landscape increasingly dominated by social media platforms.Some publishers are scaling back on Facebook... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When posting on Facebook, several content mills use multiple domains for the same article. The websites who use this tactic claim they are A/B testing URL names. But most sources suggested that URL names have no effect on user engagement and that using multiple domains can come off like an... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is making it easier for people in Germany to report fake news, but it might not be enough to convince publishers that it's willing to help turn the platform into a distribution channel for serious journalism. Publishers have been keen for more discussion with the platform about how to... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Look out, YouTube. Facebook is trialing mid-roll ads for videos that are viewed for at least 20 seconds, according to a report today by Recode, which cited unnamed industry sources. The digital giant declined to comment on the report. Simply put, Facebook wants to generate cash from the clips... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has hired former NBC and CNN anchor Campbell Brown to help with its ties to news outlets, which has been a point of friction. Brown will be the Menlo Park company’s head of news partnerships, she wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. “I will be working directly with our partners to help... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2017-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Livre has acquired a majority stake in a London-based mobile app company, Brainbow Ltd, the firm behind the brain-training app Peak. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's announcement that it was taking steps to crack down on hoaxes and fake news on the platform drew attention to a specific type of fake news ads -- those that masquerade as legitimate news sites. Publishers have long been the victim of such schemes, but they have few options to squash... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's going to need all the help it can get to combat fake news. With that in mind, the company is enlisting users to fight the good fight, revealing a five-part plan to cleanse its platform of faux publishers that make money off click-bait headlines that contain blatant untruths. The... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook may have said that it's stepping up its fight against fake news in the past few weeks, but there are signs that it might have had a way to tackle this problem sooner. A recently published USPTO filing from 2015 reveals that Facebook has app... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The more Facebook has evolved into a digital hub with its own ecosystem of media outlets and publishers, the more it has risked associating itself with misleading, sensationalized and downright factually inaccurate stories. For our latest Digiday Confessions, we talked with two members of the... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amid mounting pressure, Facebook Inc. said it would block websites that publish fake news from accessing its advertising services. The announcement Monday came hours after Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it would also bar fake news sites from using its advertising networks. The companies faced a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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